The Guadalupan controversies in Mexico
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The Guadalupan controversies in Mexico
Stanford University Press, 2006
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Bibliography: p. [293]-309
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The tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe of Mexico is one of history's greatest examples of the fusion of religious devotion and national identity. For more than three centuries it has united a people who have often been divided. Given the universality of the devotion, not just in Mexico but throughout the Catholic world, it is surprising to know that from the beginning the story of the Virgin Mary's appearances to the neophyte Indian Juan Diego has been the object of bitter controversy. In the late nineteenth century this centered on the authenticity of the tradition, sparked in part by the famous letter of the great Mexican historian Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta to the archbishop of Mexico, in which he listed his arguments against the tradition. From 1980 until 2002 the controversy centered on the canonization of Juan Diego and the doubts about his historical existence. The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico is the first comprehensive history of this interesting yet relatively unknown facet of Mexican social and religious history.
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@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface iii @toc2:1 From the Beginning 1 2 The Controversy Ignited 000 3 Coronation and Controversy 000 4 The Visitation of Archbishop Averardi 000 5 An Uneasy Calm 000 6 The Beatification of Juan Diego 000 7 History versus Juan Diego 000 8 A Sign of Contradiction 000 @toc4:Appendix 1. Letter Concerning the Origin of the Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe of Mexico, written by Don Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta to the Most Illustrious Senor Archbishop Don Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y D valos (October 1883) 000 Appendix 2. Joint Letter to the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, 9 March 1998 000 Appendix 3. Joint Letter of 27 September 1999 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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